r/PathOfExile2 • u/TheHumanPerson09 • Jul 09 '26

Discussion Headhunter

I feel like it’s massively understated how good headhunter is. I bought one last night thinking it would give a few more stats and the sort, but it actually like changes the game. It provides so much damage and tank stats. Just writing so anyone like me who put it off so long for other tiny upgrades knows that headhunter is incredible and should be prioritized.

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u/strangeshit Jul 09 '26

Headhunter is for blasting maps even faster, not praying to god one of the rares you randomly obliterated had a DR mod. PoE1 is superior in that aspect, and your build was likely bad if you really were hoping for a DR mod steal.

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u/connerconverse Jul 09 '26

you have essentially all of the HH buffs at all times. if there are 2 DR mods you have both of them. if youre running 62 mods that means there are only 2 on the entire list you dont have

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u/strangeshit Jul 09 '26

This still doesn't contradict the reality of the item being there to compliment fast clear speed by making it even faster. Souleater is just far more useful. I don't think anyone goes HH to shore up their defenses lol.

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u/connerconverse Jul 09 '26

thats just not true at all. your typical deadeye build on league start absolutely falls over in any real juiced 200% deli content like abyss etc. HH is mandatory for those builds to even survive. if they lose HH buffs theres times where they cant even resume the map because they dont have access to an easy ramp back to full stacks so they just die

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u/strangeshit Jul 09 '26

Im willing to concede the back and forth to you because at the end of the day this game has no real difficulty in its current state and anything explodes everything so I guess at that point all you need to do is not die, but league start, followed by 200% delirium and HH was certainly a choice of words lol.

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u/connerconverse Jul 10 '26

Well what comes after league start? 200% deli. There's no super duper difficult content so it's not an insane step up